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Bollywood star, 'Slumdog' actor Irrfan Khan dies
Irrfan Khan MUMBAI: Acclaimed Indian actor Irrfan Khan, whose international movie career included hits such as "Slumdog Millionaire", "Life of Pi" and "The Amazing Spider-Man", has died aged 53, his publicist said yesterday. The Bollywood star, who was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine tumor in 2018, was admitted to a Mumbai hospital earlier this week with a colon infection. "Irrfan was a strong soul, someone who fought till the very end and...
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Debate over use of virus 'immunity passports'
WASHINGTON: Governments and organizations around the world are mulling the use of hotly-debated "immunity passports" aimed at easing pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions on movements. - Reuters WASHINGTON: Governments and organizations around the world are mulling the use of hotly-debated "immunity passports" aimed at easing pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions on movements. The certificates could identify people with antibodies...
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Ooredoo Kuwait gifts free SIM cards to repatriated citizens
KUWAIT: Ooredoo Telecom, the first to introduce innovative digital services in Kuwait, affirmed its full support of the government in cooperation with Al-Rahma International Charity by gifting SIM cards which include free internet and free calls to citizens returning to Kuwait on repatriation flights to use during the medical quarantine period.This initiative stems from the company's corporate social responsibility and a continuation of its...
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Speaker blasts visa 'mafia', vows to end 'dark chapter'
KUWAIT: (From right) National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem, Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah and Minister of Social Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel are seen during a meeting to discuss the population structure. By B IzzakKUWAIT: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem yesterday launched a scathing attack on visa traders, describing them as a "mafia" and calling for taking all necessary measures to end the illicit...
TOPSHOT - A Muslim man in protective gear offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus before his burial, at a graveyard in New Delhi on April 29, 2020. - India's most deadly coronavirus day took its overall death toll past 1,000 on April 29 but the giant country of 1.3 billion people is still under intense scrutiny over how it has managed to limit the pandemic's rampage. (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP)
Million cases in US; economic toll mounting
NEW DELHI: A Muslim man in protective gear offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force personnel who died from the coronavirus before the burial at a graveyard yesterday. - AFP BERLIN: European countries are working to find a balance in how far to ease coronavirus lockdowns, with Germany enforcing mandatory masks in all shops from yesterday, as the crushing global economic cost of the pandemic becomes clearer. Excitement over moves...
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Fuel truck bomb kills more than 40 in northern Syria
AFRIN, Syria: A handout picture shows the scene of a fuel truck bomb on Tuesday in this northern Syrian city controlled by Ankara's proxies. - AFP BEIRUT: A fuel truck bomb in a market in northern Syria killed at least 46 people including Turkish-backed rebel fighters on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The blast in Afrin, a city controlled by Ankara's proxies, came as people went shopping in preparation to break the...
Refrigeration trucks that will serve as a temporary morgue are parked the Centro de Convenciones Bicentenario -a convention centre- where a 370-bed field hospital for COVID-19 coronavirus patients is being build in Quito on April 23, 2020. - The number of coronavirus cases in Ecuador almost doubled to 22,000 following the processing of a testing backlog, the health minister said on Thursday. (Photo by RODRIGO BUENDIA / AFP)
Dead bodies piled up in bathrooms
QUITO: Refrigeration trucks that will serve as a temporary morgue are parked the Centro de Convenciones Bicentenario -a convention centre- where a 370-bed field hospital for COVID-19 coronavirus patients is being build in Quito. The number of coronavirus cases in Ecuador almost doubled to 22,000 following the processing of a testing backlog. - AFP GUAYAQUIL: Front line medics in one of Latin America's coronavirus epicenters are lifting the lid...
People, wearing protective masks to combat the spread coronavirus, walk in the Mall of Dubai on April 28, 2020, after the mall was reopened. (Photo by Karim SAHIB / AFP)
With fever checks and masks, Dubai mega-mall reopens
DUBAI: People wearing protective masks to combat the spread coronavirus walk in the Mall of Dubai on Tuesday after it reopened. - AFP DUBAI: Clutching bags from designer boutiques in their gloved hands, customers are back at Dubai Mall, one of the world's largest shopping havens that has reopened under strict safeguards against coronavirus. At a main entrance where customers hand over their sports cars and luxury SUVs for valet parking,...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 08, 2020 a body is moved from a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue to a vehicle at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York. - The number of US deaths from the novel coronavirus has surpassed the toll of Americans killed in the Vietnam War, the Johns Hopkins University tracker showed on April 28, 2020. (Photo by Bryan R. Smith / AFP)
New York doctor who treated COVID-19 patients kills herself
NEW YORK: A body is moved from a refrigeration truck serving as a temporary morgue to a vehicle at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York. - AFP NEW YORK: A New York emergency doctor who treated coronavirus patients has killed herself, with family, police and physicians linking her death to trauma faced by health care workers battling the outbreak. Lorna Breen, 49, died on Sunday from self-inflicted injuries in...
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Kuwait reports one death, 300 new coronavirus cases
KUWAIT: The ministry of health confirmed Wednesday 300 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 3,740, while one death was reported, bringing the total to 24.During a daily briefing, Health Ministry Spokesperson Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said 66 patients are in intensive care, 28 of them in critical condition, while 2,327 patients are currently receiving treatment at hospitals.The latest death...
(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 5, 2020, a man wearing a facemask as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus walks past a wall painted with images of US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad (L) and Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (R), in Kabul. - Two months after the US and the Taliban signed a deal Washington heralded as the way to end Afghanistan's war, violence is spiralling out of control and experts say a fragile peace process risks collapse. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)
Afghan peace process risks collapse as violence flares
KABUL: A man wearing a facemask as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus walks past a wall painted with images of US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad (left) and Taleban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul. - AFP KABUL: Two months after the US and the Taleban signed a deal Washington heralded as the way to end Afghanistan's war, violence is spiraling out of control and...
French Desiria Wagner, 31, mortuary service agent, poses for a picture by refrigeration units at the Emile Muller Hospital morgue in Mulhouse, France, on April 22, 2020 during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. - Ahead of May Day on May 1, 2020, AFP portrayed 55 workers defying the novel coronavirus around the world. Work has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic for Wagner, as bodies are not prepared for the burial and there are no family gatherings. Sanitary measures include masks, blouse, over-blouse, charlottes and gloves. (Photo by SÈbastien BOZON / AFP)
France charts 'risky' return to life after virus lockdown
MULHOUSE: French Desiria Wagner, 31, mortuary service agent, poses for a picture by refrigeration units at the Emile Muller Hospital morgue in Mulhouse, France during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. _ AFP PARIS: France will begin a gradual but "risky" return to normality on May 11, with shops, markets and some schools reopening after an eight-week coronavirus lockdown credited with saving more than 60,000 lives, Prime Minister Edouard...
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